Just when you thought the advertising industry couldn't get anymore sleazy and and pervasive, alongs comes a Google
Google gives Voice users ability to not share their messages
Google was forced into some quick tweaking of Google Voice last month after users spotted that transcripts of voicemail messages were being served up in search results. An alert user spotted what is clearly an oversight by the firm whose global mission is to index everything that moves. Or doesn't move. The service allows …
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Tuesday 20th October 2009 15:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Danger Will Robinson! Danger! Danger!
Just because Google put a fix in that will hide the transcription from "public search records" doesn't mean that they are still not automatically transcribing them for their own internal uses, now does it?
Think about it. The privacy breach still exists. That is of course if you are using Google voice, Google Brother is still listening.
And how well do you trust Google?
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Tuesday 20th October 2009 23:48 GMT Neoc
Engage brain
'' As one posted to Boygeniusreport said, "Lol you really think google would make a programming mistake like that??" ''
<sarcasm> Lol, you really think people would make the difference between a programming mistake and a faulty business case </sarcasm>
This is *not* a programming mistake - this is a situation which nobody at Google thought of (I hope). Happens a lot in any company; something happens to the brand-new *complex* system, fingers are pointed, and some poor schmuck in the programming department turns around and says "we never even thought of *that*".
I can see why a company which is *geared* towards indexing/search-results would have automatically indexed and presented the results by default. Because that's what they do, by default. Until someone realises that the default doesn't apply in this case.